The Iranian Resistance condemns the arrest of striking workers of the Ahvaz steel industrial group and calls on the general public, especially the youth and workers of Khuzestan, to express solidarity with the strikers and to support families of the detainees, and calls on all international human rights and labor rights organizations to condemn suppressive and anti-labor policies of the clerical regime and to take action for the immediate and unconditional release of the detainees.

NCRI - The leading Republican and Democrat from the House Foreign Affairs Committee have introduced a bipartisan bill that would broaden sanctions against the Iran regime’s Revolutionary Guard Corps for its role in Syria and its support of terrorism.

On Thursday, March 1, on the verge of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, workers and employees of the Ahvaz National Steel Group gathered in front of the governorate of the city on the tenth day of their strike. They are asking for their three month delayed salary, insurance premium, and end-of-year bonus. They are deprived of medical services because they have not received their insurance premiums.

The end of injustice is possible only with the uprising and overthrow of this anti-labor regime

Ali Naqdi, one of the deprived workers in our country, was the victim of the predatory and anti-labor policies of the ruling religious fascism, unable to provide for his family and himself and paying increasing debts, when after many months of trying to recuperate his salary, the efforts did not yield any results, he committed suicide. His body was found in the water channel on February 27.

NCRI - Donald Trump will be urged to demonstrate America’s commitment to regime change in Iran by making a direct appeal to the Iranian people who are still involved in nationwide protests across the country.

NCRI - The Iranian Regime is escalating its proxy wars in Iraq, Syria and Yemen to a new, more dangerous stage and providing more money, weapons and advisers to their Shiite militias in those regions in order to secure Iran’s growing influence over the Middle East once ISIS falls, according to a former high level American diplomat in the region.